Benjamin Handel (Cohort 18), PhD, RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research, has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley.

Colin Moore (Cohort 16) is this year's recipient of the American Political Science Association's Walter Dean Burnham Award for the best dissertation in Politics and History for his work, "Institutions of Empire: Information, Delegation, and the Political Control of American Imperialism, 1880-1913."

Eric McDaniel (Cohort 15) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the co-recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Political Research Quarterly Best Article Award (with co-author Christopher Ellison) from the Western Political Science Association for their June 2008 Political Research Quarterly Article: "God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time."

Tim Büthe (Cohort 14) has published, "The Globalization of Health and Safety Standards: Delegation of Regulatory Authority in the SPS Agreement of the 1994 Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization" in Law and Contemporary Problems.

Robert Mickey (Cohort 13) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Politcal Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Anthony Chen (Cohort 12) has joined Northwestern University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Policy Research.

Christopher Parker (Cohort 12) has been promoted and named the Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice by the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Through interaction and collaboration with faculty from the social sciences, medicine, public health, and public policy, the
expectation is that Scholars will seek to make important research contributions to future health policy in the United States. Each
year, the national program enables up to nine highly qualified individuals to undertake two-year fellowships at one of three
program sites:

University of California, Berkeley/
University of California, San Francisco

Harvard University

University of Michigan

Each site accepts approximately three Scholars each year, distributed across the three target disciplines. Participating Scholars
undertake cutting-edge research relevant to health policy using the tools and perspectives of their discipline.

The Scholars in Health Policy Research Program is administered by a National Program Office, housed at Boston University and
directed by Dr. Alan Cohen.